Klarinet Archive - Posting 001293.txt from 1998/10

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Eb reed use
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 03:23:25 -0500

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 CmdrHerel@-----.com wrote:
> I play much less Eb than Bb and A, but I have found the same thing to be true
> with the reeds. (I use almost all the Eb reeds in the box.) I accept this as
> a nice quirk and try not to question it too much... :)

The larger the reed the more adjusting it requires - bass reeds take a lot
of adjusting, contra reeds take me weeks to perfect. clarinet reeds, two
or three days on the tough ones, but usually one or two days, about five
minutes a day. I haven't had enough experience with eefer to say for
sure, but since the reed is considerably smaller, there would be
considerably less warpage to sand away...

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
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